Gestern wurde der @bodendesjahres.bsky.social in Berlin vorgestellt: Es gab spannende Vorträge zum Thema Archivböden, interessante Gespräche mit Bodenkundigen aus @soilsdbg.bsky.social und @bvboden.bsky.social und leckeren 🍷 aus Hessen...

Happy 5th December, World Soils Day!! Please take a moment to think about your local patch of soil - whether it's your garden, a local park or even a nearby forest. Is the soil is being looked after well there? If not, what can you do to protect it for future generations? 🧪🪱 #Soil #WorldSoilDay

Das crazy! Black Friday! Zwei Bücher zum Preis von nur zwei Büchern!* Checkst du! (*Es lebe die Buchpreisbindung, die sicherstellt, dass alle Bücher in den Geschäften dasselbe kosten. Buchpreisbindung hilft Buchvielfalt erhalten.)

Today, I had a lot of fun at my daugther's elementary school, where I talked about the importance of healthy soils and the beauty of soil organisms (which is easy if one has the fantastic photos of @frankashwood.bsky.social). Next generation of soil scientists is secured I hope 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

...and the honor of the first sample goes to... @peterkuehn37.bsky.social 🥳

HERE WE ARE!!! For Tübingen #DBG2025, we offer - for the first time - a dedicated conference app, accessible directly via QR code. Enjoy rapid updates, navigation through our exciting sessions & orchestrate your own programme. We look forward to welcoming you at the @unituebingen.bsky.social.

Dear all (members of the @soilsdbg.bsky.social, of @unituebingen.bsky.social & citizens of #Tübingen): Happy to announce that our academic celebration event of the #DBG2025 is open for public - offering 2 invited scientific presentations (engl.) & awarding ceremonies (ger). Feel warmly invited!

One of my favorite parts of the conference 😋. Looking forward to being in Tübingen in 2 days and seeing all my soil science friends (and tasting some yummy 🍰 with them)

🚨 Call for session proposals! The #EGU26 SSS Division is accepting ideas for sessions. Help shape the programme: 🌱 soils, sustainability, climate, land use, and beyond. 📅 Deadline: 16 Sept 2025 🔗 meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/provis... #SoilScience #EGU_SSS #ECS #ScienceCareers

Hey @elsevierconnect.bsky.social, @geoderma.bsky.social is one of my absolute favorite journals, but receiving a review request on a Saturday, 7:01 a.m. and then a reminder on Monday morning 7:14 a.m. ("why haven't you replied in the past 48 h of your weekend???") is beyond annoying 😑.

Dear #DBG2025 participants, ready to explore the latest downloads? Grab the programme booklet as PDF at tinyurl.com/nhdu5jn3. Check out our exciting programme: onsite registration possible! Download your DBG 2025 Excursion Guide at tinyurl.com/4389v37h (printed copy on site). Few last spots left 🙂

What an absolutely fantastic visualization of global atmospheric CO2 concentrations 🤩 (even if one can't help but wonder if the contribution of biocrusts in drylands was adequately captured 😅): svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5196/

Please repost: TERRA is announcing its Coordination Office - FIVE POSITIONS (Coordination, PublicRelations, Education, ScienceDialogue, DataMangement). Check tinyurl.com/yc5jrrp2. Please share, apply & join the TERRA team 😀 #AcademicJobs, #ResearchJobs, #UniJobs, #ScienceJobs, #JobPosting, #HigherEd

Want to learn to write fast R code—and support Ukraine while doing it? Join my workshop Thursday, August 28th 6-8 pm CEST! We’ll cover profiling & benchmarking, and take a tour of fast packages like data.table, collapse, Rcpp and more... With plenty of code examples & hands-on practice! #rstats

Had a great time with my friend Steffen Seitz of @unituebingen.bsky.social and our visitor Alon Nissan of @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social. My second very fruitful scientific exchange this year that was made possible by @euerasmusplus.bsky.social 😊.

doi.org/10.1007/s105... "Life on Earth is not confined by our imagined political boundaries between one country and the next, between one state and the next... "

One of the cool things about Hanover is that within only a few km distance, one can find one of the worst soils of 🇩🇪 (podzol: 21/100 points) and one of the best soils (chernozem: 96/100). Of course, both are equally beautiful 😍, irrespective of how fertile they are

🌱 Wageningen University & Research is hiring at the Soil Science Cluster! 🌍 We are looking for a full professor and chair of the Soil Physics and Land Management (SLM) group — a team with an outstanding international reputation in research and education. Please share! 🔗 lnkd.in/e5BeZ9gS

Now THAT is what I call a proper soil pit 😅. Visited my wonderful colleagues @franzibucka.bsky.social and Nele Meyer of @goetheuni.bsky.social today to admire this beautiful loess soil profile (including "little" traces of bioturbation 🦡)

Our next community meeting is on Tuesday! Please join us to learn all about eLabFTW version 5.2, which has many new exciting features and tools 🔬⚗️🔭🧪⚛️

Dear Soil Science friends! There are so many brilliant geoscientists out there who deserve a recognition for their excellent research (e.g. the Alina Kabata-Pendias Medal of the @egu-sss.bsky.social). If you know somebody who you think should get one of the awards, please nominate them 👇

Die DFG hat den chancengleichen Zugang zu allen Förderprogrammen und die Vielfalt in der wissenschaftlichen Bestenauswahl zu zentralen Zielen gemacht. Entscheidend dabei: die Anerkennung verschiedener Lebenswege und deren Einflüsse auf die Karriere:⬇️ www.dfg.de/chancengleic... #DiversityTag #DDT2025

To all #soil #scientists out there, you can follow the EGU Soil System Sciences Division here 👇 bsky.app/profile/egu-... Lets grow up in this much more safe space for science 😇 @egu.eu @egu-sss.bsky.social

Had a brilliant time at the Baltic Sea the past two days with colleagues from Uni Rostock and my great student Tobias from @unihannover.bsky.social. We measured #biocrust stability in the field and want to find out if we can correlate coastal dune stability with hyperspectral imaging data.

Bleibt Menschen

Erdüberlastungstag in 🇩🇪 am 3. Mai (!) und der designierte Landwirtschaftsminister (CSU) hält es für eine gute Idee, die Massentierhaltung zu stärken und will wieder mehr 🥩 in Kitas und Schulen... 🤦‍♂️

If you're interested in #micropastics in soils, don't miss our seminar today by Dr. Collin Weber of TU Darmstadt: "Environmental Baseline Pollution of Microplastics in Soils" You can join online using the webex link on our homepage: www.iesw.uni-hannover.de/de/institut/...

I gave a presentation about #biocrust showcasing articles from Frontiers topic on "spatio-temporal development and ecological functions of #soil surface #microbial communities across different scales". We got 25 articles, see the editorial. www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... More to follow...

just going to leave this here: youtu.be/JZRcYaAYWg4?...

...wirklich erschreckend 😳

Preparations for our state-wide soil excursion are in full flow. Very much looking forward to when this is finally ready. Stay tuned if you want to learn more about the soils of Hesse 🤠

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It starts with preprinting everything @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social, obviously.

Flying home after a great week in Florence, where I did a @euerasmusplus.bsky.social lecturer exchange, taught about the use of CT in soil science and even got to see the new CT scanner of Uni Firenze 🤓

What was that? You always wondered how desert isopods affect soil C flux and microtopography of biological soil crusts? Look no further 😅: I'm happy to share the latest paper in @geoderma.bsky.social with @nevosagi.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

📣GSBI Speaks is back this February! Join us to learn about remote sensing and sensing to measure soil biodiversity 📸🎥🐛🐜🦠🪱 Feb. 21, 2025, 9:00 MST, 11:00 EST, 16:00 GMT, 17:00 CET Register 👇 https://buff.ly/4h4Vuf4

Eine Filmpremiere über die Bedeutung der Moore am 26.01.2025 um 11:30 Uhr im Cinema Arthouse, Osnabrück. Weitere Einzelheiten unter: umweltforum-osnabrueck.de/event-detail...

It was really great to welcome @inesmulder.bsky.social of @ruhr-uni-bochum.de yesterday here at her alma mater and learn more about her exciting research on the effects of disinfectants in soils.

Jetzt ist es ganz klar: Wenn Sie wollen, dass Deutschland von internationalen Oligarchen regiert wird, dann wählen Sie AfD

Nach Wahlwerbung für AfD: Elon Musk stellt neuen Sprung vor

Excited to announce the next International Biocrust Reading Group Meeting! 🪴🌍 We'll meet on January 7th at 17:00 GMT to discuss the latest in biocrust research. Interested in joining? Send me a message! #Biocrust #Ecology #ScienceCommunity @michalaphillips.bsky.social

If you missed today's webinar on biocrusts, check it out on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O91...

Starting soon: Biological soil crusts 🔗online Seminar convened by @thegsbi.bsky.social@thegsbi.bsky.social #microsky

List of the wonderful people working with biocrust. Let me know if you want in on the fun. All biocrust enthusiasts are invited!

📣GSBI Speaks is back this December. Join us in the second of the series to learn about the role of biological soil crusts (biocrusts) in soil 🎉 Dec. 12, 2024, 7:00 MST, 9:00 EST, 14:00 GMT, 15:00 CET Register 👇 zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Happy World Soil Day!! #WSD #worldsoilday #mite #mesofauna #macro #macrophotogrpahy

Heute ist #Weltbodentag 🫵 Am 5. Dezember, jedes Jahr wieder - für mehr #Bodenschutz #WSD #worldsoilday #wsd2024 #Boden #Böden (Bild hat die KI gemacht 🥳😜)

Letzte Woche habe ich alte Freunde in der Bodenkunde der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de besucht 🤗, das vorweihnachtliche 🎅🎄 Bochum genossen und die wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen zwischen Bochum und Hannover ausgebaut 🤓. www.geographie.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/news/2024/ne...

Rhizosphere6 will be held 15-19 June 2025 in beautiful Edinburgh. Website to launch soon. Here’s the landing page. www.rhizo6.org

...very happy to see so many of my #biocrust friends joining this place every day 🤩